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It's the article Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R. Ghodsee, which explains the reasons why women had better sex under socialism. She also wrote a book on this subject.
I'm 100% pro vaccine and I love shaming anti-vaxxers, but I dislike this notion of shutting people up. You can buy The Anarchists Cookbook on Amazon, which teaches you how to make bombs and drugs, but you can't buy the dipshittery of anti-vaxx propaganda?
We have the facts on our side. These kinds of selective shows of force only serve to embolden the dumb asses. The answer to bad speech is good speech, not suppression.
And yes, Amazon is free to do whatever they want, that doesn't mean it's wise or right.
Can't believe that no one mentioned that these faggots are actually salty over this joke that made the author tens of thousands :
https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/a9AM7D0_700b.jpg
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Socialism-Works-Harrison-Lievesley/dp/1521531218
Holy crap its real:
>Are multi-national corporations laying the groundwork for international socialism?
>For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the the ultimate expressions of free market competition. Their remarkable success vindicates the old idea that our modern societies are too large, too complex and difficult, to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, late capitalism already operates by central planning. The sheer economic weight of multinational, corporate giants means that the decision making of its owners decides the fate of virtually everyone else downstream of them, shaping the fortunes of much of the world. Not only is planning possible, we already have it. Except all the power is concentrated in the hands of a selfish few.
>Against the dictatorship of capital, The People's Republic of Walmart is a clarion call for a return to collective decision making in all matters economic. With the rise of new computational systems and new capacities for massive, collective enterprises, democratically organizing the economic in the interest of human need rather than in the interests of profit is as great as it ever has been.
>About the Author
>Leigh Philips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts.
>Michal Rozworski is a Toronto-based union researcher and writer. He blogs at Political Eh-conomy and has been published in Jacobin, Ricochet, The Toronto Star, and Briarpatch Magazine.
Doesn't look that bad.....
You should get your relative a copy of "the people's republic of Walmart", which dismisses the capitalist myth of the so-called "inefficiency" of centralised planned economies. It turns out not only can computers anticipate supply/demand curves, but already do it all the time and are the reason why corporate juggernauts like Walmart, a private economy unto itself that's about the size of Sweden's entire national economy, can function.
For all those on the left I have the "Perfect" book for you, it's #1 in the Political Ideologies section of Amazon! Why Socialism Works
you make it sound as if I personally take some EU funds. And you have a really condescending attitude. "You take our money, we helped you, so you must listen as we tell you". From my perspective (I am Czech), it was Germany and Russia who fucked my country up 80 years ago. One side Nazis killing slavic people because they were untermenschen, on the other side fucking USSR. If it were not for these two countries, communism would not have decimated eastern Europe. You need some history lessons
https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Europe-Between-Hitler-Stalin/dp/0465031471
and nowadays we see history repeating itself. Gemany is no more nazistic and imperialistic, but it is spineless and enabling another fascist Regime, which is current Russia. Russia is again threatening other countries
I'm just gonna add some extra resources for this idea:
Short article
Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work
Bigger book
Just be mindful that both are from Jacobin, it's a good source that can be a little problematic sometimes.
Thanks! Snyder is a great writer. Bloodlands is definitely worth the read -- it's a look at the mass killings under the Hitler and Stalin regimes. If that sounds like both-sides-ism or something, it's more like 'political mass murder' is itself the center of the story, often told from the point of view of its victims.
The Black Book of Communism estimates it at 94 million.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087
Here is an article about the death toll:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810
The question of the death toll is still up for debate
The Amazon reviews didn't disappoint:
I gave this book five stars for numerous reasons. In the words of Albert Einstein "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
The author entices the reader with a simple and concise, yet eloquent and complete explanation of socialism. I'm sure this will go down as one of the greatest texts ever written on the subject. I found myself furiously consuming the words on each page, totally engrossed in the text. It seemed I couldn't turn the pages fast enough! I highly recommend this book to anyone studying the subject of socialism as it is sure to give you the best possible understanding of the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Mixing-Secrets-Small-Studio-Presents/dp/0240815807
Tough read, you bet... but it covers so much, rather than youtube tutorials crammed into 20 minutes with 5 minutes worth of adds and shit...
Tells you the ins and outs and the whys of all the techniques, methods etc. I'm about to start my fourth read of this.
I'd even argue that I got more out of this book when it comes to mixing than I did at uni... but maybe its because I was older and already had a basic understanding of the bulk of the book.
>a free market makes it easier to start and finance a new business.
On the contrary, you can only start businesses these days if you have the backing of venture capital funds on some very predatory lending terms.
>A market economy distributes decision making more efficiently
Which is of course why wal-mart, Amazon, FoxConn and so many other countries do central planning internally? And why Sears's internal competition system failed miserably?
>natural mechanisms to deal with supply shortages.
This 'natural mechanism' is just 'increase prices, and if the supply glut is long enough and the investment is worth it, increase production'. We're currently seeing mass shortages of semiconductor chips in the USA (so much so that Biden felt it necessary to do the 'for want of a nail' speech).
Again, depends on how you define commercial speech.
Here's a link to buy The Communist Manifesto on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0717802418/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_bnq6zbZ6R4C7C
Both Amazon and International Publishers are profiting from publishing something that passed your ban criteria. Since companies are involved and making money off publishing The Communist Manifesto, it fits your expanded criteria too.
Fun fact, Grimes, aka Elon Musk's wife, made a TikTok saying how AI could bring communism, I tried to make a topic out of it, but it didn't work out very well.
You are very correct in saying that big data analysis and machine learning are vital in resource management and determining value under communism, the book The People's Republic of Walmart explores this concept rather well.
Just be mindful that I think you might be getting the problem communism wants to solve, because "a method of determining "cost and benefit" when making decisions of what projects to prioritize" is a way of taking power of the hands of people and putting into an AI.
Scarcity is not the problem communism wants to solve.
Cuba is the perfect example of a country who is able to provide an amazing social structure for health, education and safety without having to work these solutions.
If you want the state to create or enforce a monopoly, you aren't a Capitalist. Simply repeating "they are Capitalists!" does not make it true. These are the people who funded the Bolsheviks, does that make them Communists? They are 100% STATISTS.
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Bolshevik-Revolution-Capitalists/dp/190557035X
They just used government to shutdown private business for a whole year while thier corporations consolidated customers. Many of those businesses will never come back. This is not Capitalism and Corporate Personhood does not exist without the State to grant special privileges while avoiding legal liability. Corporate status itself is a fiction created by the State.
Or you can search YT for testimonies from Cuban and North Korean refugees.
But probably won't work on your friend.
This one is really good. Thorough, but succinct. The author obviously has a more than thorough understanding of Marx and Engels' work and pretty much lays out the full, irrefutable arguments here.
The book that these bullet points come from is called Bloodlands:Europe between Hitler and Stalin, and is extremely in depth and readable.
You do know that Stalin took loans and financing from the west right? He wouldn't have been able to industrialize if he didn't. China closed itself off from the west and was an economic basket case until it embraced western style capitalist industrialization. There is one world market. It isn't fair and is absolutely corrupt but if you choose to try and segregate from it, it will find a way in either through regime change or economic warfare and lastly by conventional warfare if it has to but it will triumph through force of will. If you want to read a better book read Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists
Check out Bloodlands if you want see just how bad it was in Eastern Europe and why Russia believes the Ukraine belongs to them.
What part?
The fabians were Bernard Shaw, the Webb family, and the Rothschild. Beatrice Webb is part of the Rothschild family.
Leopold de Rothschild founded the Fabian Society, together with a Marx daughter, immediately after Marx death.
Karl Marx was itself cousin of Lionel de Rothschild.
The creation of the Soviet Union is documented in Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists
The creation of fascism in Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
Theyre both bankster systems.
prices are regional. if you dont live in America it might be more expensive